[PATCH] Properly cache the result from looking up the nss database config

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.com
Fri May 17 07:46:00 GMT 2013


On 04/10/2013 02:17 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> The last argument of __nss_database_lookup is supposed to be used as a
> cache for the lookup result, but three callers do not properly make use
> of it: they store it in a local variable instead of in the static one
> that is defined for that purpose.  __nss_database_lookup is expecting to
> be called only once for each database; if there is no config for a
> database it reparses the default each time which allocates new memory
> (though technically it's not a leak since it frees all of it at program
> exit).

Ok, thanks,

Andreas
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